[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Your opinion is not my reality.

Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.